The Journal
Notes on Contributors
Below is the list of every scholar who has contributed to theReview since the premier issue in 1998.
- Adler, Thomas P.
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Aguilera Linde, Mauricio D.
- University of Granada (Spain)
Mauricio D. Aguilera Linde teaches at the University of Granada (Spain). Editor of an anthology of Victorian fairytales and a collection of Indian short fiction (Miraguano 2009), he specializes in American short fiction and drama of the forties and fifties from a cultural materialist perspective.
Journal Essays: - “The Wilderness is Interior”: Williams’s Strategies of Resistance in “Two on a Party” (2010)
- University of Granada (Spain)
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Badenes, José I.
- Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature
Loyola Marymount University
José I. Badenes teaches Spanish and comparative literature in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, California. He specializes in the life and works of Spaniard Federico García Lorca. Dr. Badenes is currently working on a comparative study of the plays of Tennessee Williams and Federico García Lorca.
Journal Essays: - The Dramatization of Desire: Tennessee Williams and Federico García Lorca (2009)
- Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature
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Bak, John S.
- Maître de Conférences (Assoc. Prof.)
Nancy-Université (France)
John S. Bak is Maître de Conférences (Assoc. Prof.) at Nancy-Université in France, where he teaches courses in translation, literary journalism, American drama, and American Gothic. His articles have appeared in such journals as Theatre Journal, Mississippi Quarterly, Journal of American Drama and Theatre, Tennessee Williams Annual Review, American Drama, Journal of Religion and Theatre, and South Atlantic Review.
Journal Essays: - A Streetcar Named Dies Irae: Tennessee Williams and the Semiotics of Rape (2009)
- Tennessee v. John T. Scopes: "Blanche" Jennings Bryan and Antievolutionism (2006)
- Conference Panels:
- Williams and His Contemporaries: William Inge (2007)
- Maître de Conférences (Assoc. Prof.)
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Bernard, Mark
- Carson-Newman College in Jefferson City, TN
Mark Bernard has published and presented essays on James Joyce, Irish literature, comics and sequential art, and film. He lives in Knoxville, TN, and teaches courses in composition, literature, and film studies at Carson-Newman College in Jefferson City, TN.
Journal Essays: - Punishment and the Body: Boss Whalen, Michel Foucault, and Not About Nightingales (2005)
- Carson-Newman College in Jefferson City, TN
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Blades, Larry
- Larry Blades is an independent scholar. He presented a version of this essay at the 2008 Tennessee Williams Scholars Conference.
Journal Essays: - The Returning Vet's Experience in A Streetcar Named Desire: Stanley as the Decommissioned Warrior under Stress (2009)
- Larry Blades is an independent scholar. He presented a version of this essay at the 2008 Tennessee Williams Scholars Conference.
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Bourque, Darrell
- Professor of English
University of Louisiana-Lafayette
Darrell Bourque is Professor of English at the University of Louisiana-Lafayette in the Department of English and the Interdisciplinary Humanities program and is acting Head of the English Department. His latest book of poems, Burnt Water Suite, was published by Wings Press in 1999. - Conference Panels:
- Teaching Tennessee (2001)
- Professor of English
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Brantley, Will
- Professor of English
Middle Tennessee State University
Will Brantley is a professor of English at Middle Tennessee State University. He is the author of Feminine Sense in Southern Memoir and Conversations with Pauline Kael as well as numerous essays on southern literature. - Conference Panels:
- Williams and His Contemporaries: Lillian Hellman (2006)
- Exotic Birds of a Feather: Carson McCullers and Tennessee Williams (2000)
- Professor of English
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Bray, Robert
- Middle Tennessee State University
Robert Bray is the founding editor of the Tennessee Williams Annual Review and the founding director of the Tennessee Williams Scholars Conference, now in its fourteenth year. His book Tennessee Williams and His Contemporaries was published in 2007, and his new book (with R. Barton Palmer), entitled Hollywood's Tennessee: The Williams Films and Postwar America, was released in April of 2009.
Journal Essays: - A Reading of The Reading (2010)
- Editor's Note (2009)
- A Streetcar Named Interior Panic (2007)
- Foreword to "His Father's House" (2005)
- Editor's Note to The One Exception (2000)
- Editor's Note to "The Negative" (1999)
- Editor's Foreword and Acknowledgments (1998)
- Conference Panels:
- The Early Plays of Tennessee Williams (2005)
- The Unpublished Tennessee Williams (2003)
- Looking at the Late Plays of Tennessee Williams (2002)
- Teaching Tennessee (2001)
- Middle Tennessee State University
- Cardullo, Bert
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Carr, Virginia Spencer
- Professor of English
Georgia State University
Virginia Spencer Carr is a professor of English at Georgia State University and has written several books on Carson McCullers—most notably, her award-winning biography, The Lonely Hunter, in 1975. She has also written biographies of John Dos Passos and is presently finishing one on Paul Bowles and working on another on Tennessee Williams. - Conference Panels:
- Exotic Birds of a Feather: Carson McCullers and Tennessee Williams (2000)
- Professor of English
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Case, Claudia Wilsch
- Claudia Wilsch Case is a scholar, translator, and dramaturg. She received an MFA in Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism from the Yale School of Drama, and is currently working on her dissertation on the Theatre Guild at Yale.
Journal Essays: - Inventing Tennessee Williams: The Theatre Guild and His First Professional Production (2006)
- Claudia Wilsch Case is a scholar, translator, and dramaturg. She received an MFA in Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism from the Yale School of Drama, and is currently working on her dissertation on the Theatre Guild at Yale.
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Cave, Mark
- Manuscripts Librarian
The Historic New Orleans Collection
Mark Cave is manuscripts librarian at The Historic New Orleans Collection. He has been instrumental in assembling and cataloguing the materials in the Fred Todd Collection and has published several articles based on his work in the archives.
Journal Essays: - Fred W. Todd and the Tennessee Williams Holdings at The Historic New Orleans Collection (2005)
- Manuscripts Librarian
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Clemens, Bernadette
- Bernadette Clemens holds a B.A. cum laude from Barnard College of Columbia University and a certificate from the British American Drama Academy. She
is an M.A. candidate and director of national development at Case Western Reserve University, and a professional
actress with unions AEA and AFTRA.
Journal Essays: - Desire and Decay: Female Survivorship in Faulkner and Williams (2009)
- Bernadette Clemens holds a B.A. cum laude from Barnard College of Columbia University and a certificate from the British American Drama Academy. She
is an M.A. candidate and director of national development at Case Western Reserve University, and a professional
actress with unions AEA and AFTRA.
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Clinton, Craig
- Reed College
Director of Theatre
Dr. Craig Clinton is Director of Theatre at Reed College in Portland, Oregon. His publications include studies of works by Tennessee Williams, William Inge, Trevor Griffiths and John Arden. Clinton’s plays have been produced regionally and in New York City at Playwrights Horizons and the Manhattan Theatre Club. His recent book, Mrs. Leslie Carter, a biography of the turn of the twentieth century American stage star, was published in the fall of 2006 by McFarland and Company.
Journal Essays: - Working with Tennessee: Charlotte Moore Discusses the Production of A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur (2007)
- Reed College
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Cohn, Ruby
- Ruby Cohn was raised in New York City and was in the WAVES during World War II. She took her B.A. from Hunter College, a graduate degree from the University of Paris, and her Ph. D. at Washington University in St. Louis. She has published and edited over a dozen books on modern American and European drama, with four on the works of Samuel Beckett. She's taught at San Francisco State, California Institute for the Arts, and UC-Davis.
- Conference Panels:
- Looking at the Late Plays of Tennessee Williams (2002)
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Conlon, Christopher
- Freelance Writer
Christopher Conlon is a freelance writer who holds an M.A. in American literature from the University of Maryland. His articles, poems, and stories have appeared in such diverse publications as America Magazine, Filmfax, The Thomas Wolfe Review, and The Washington Post. Conlon's web site can be accessed at www.christopherconlon.com.
Journal Essays: - "Fox-Teeth in Your Heart": Sexual Self-Portraiture in the Poetry of Tennessee Williams (2001)
- Freelance Writer
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Crandell, George W.
- Head of the English Department
Auburn University
George W. Crandell is Head of the English Department at Auburn University, where he teaches courses on American drama. He has published articles on American humor and modern drama, as well as Tennessee Williams: A Descriptive Bibliography and The Critical Response to Tennessee Williams. He is currently working on a descriptive bibliography of the works of Arthur Miller.
Journal Essays: - The Cinematic Eye in Tennessee Williams's The Glass Menagerie (1998)
- Conference Panels:
- The Early Plays of Tennessee Williams (2005)
- Teaching Tennessee (2001)
- Head of the English Department
- Davis, David A.
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Debusscher, Gilbert
- Professor of English and American Literature
University of Brussels in Belgium
Gilbert Debusscher is Professor of English and American Literature and Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Letters at the University of Brussels in Belgium. He is the author or editor of books and articles on Edward Albee, Tennessee Williams, Jack Richardson, Edward Bond, Willy Russell, and avant-garde drama.
Journal Essays: - Tennessee Williams's Dramatic Charade: Secrets and Lies in The Glass Menagerie (2000)
- "Where Memory Begins": New Texas Light on The Glass Menagerie (1998)
- Professor of English and American Literature
- Devlin, Albert J.
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Dews, Carlos
- Professor and Chair of English and Foreign Languages
University of West Florida in Pensacola
Carlos Dews is a professor and Chair of English and Foreign Languages at the University of West Florida in Pensacola. He has written several works on Carson McCullers, including editing her unfinished autobiography, published in 1999, Illumination and Night Glare. He also worked on The Library of America's Carson McCullers: Complete Novels (2001). - Conference Panels:
- Exotic Birds of a Feather: Carson McCullers and Tennessee Williams (2000)
- Professor and Chair of English and Foreign Languages
- Di Cintio, Matt
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Dorff, Linda
- The late Linda Dorff was Assistant Professor of Theatre History, Theory and Criticism in the School of Theatre at the University of Houston. She received her Ph.D. from New York University in 1997. In addition to editing a book of interviews, Working with Tennessee, she produced and directed a documentary film for public television entitled Tennessee Williams' Dragon Country: The Late Plays. She was Advisor to the Hartford Stage Company's decade-long Tennessee Williams Marathon.
Journal Essays: - "All very [not!] Pirandello": Radical Theatrics in the Evolution of Vieux Carré (2000)
- Theatricalist Cartoons: Tennessee Williams's Late, "Outrageous" Plays (1999)
- The late Linda Dorff was Assistant Professor of Theatre History, Theory and Criticism in the School of Theatre at the University of Houston. She received her Ph.D. from New York University in 1997. In addition to editing a book of interviews, Working with Tennessee, she produced and directed a documentary film for public television entitled Tennessee Williams' Dragon Country: The Late Plays. She was Advisor to the Hartford Stage Company's decade-long Tennessee Williams Marathon.
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Ewell, Barbara
- Kate Chopin Specialist
City College, Loyola University of New Orleans
- Conference Panels:
- Exotic Birds of a Feather: Carson McCullers and Tennessee Williams (2000)
- Kate Chopin Specialist
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Falocco, Joe
- Adjunct Professor of Theatre
Catawba College
Joe Falocco is an adjunct professor of theatre at Catawba College and a Ph.D. candidate at UNC Greensboro. His most recent publication, an essay on George Bernard Shaw, appears in the 2004 New England Theatre Journal.
Journal Essays: - Gardens of Desire: Toward a Unified Vision of Garden District (2005)
- Adjunct Professor of Theatre
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Francis, James
- James Francis is a Ph.D. candidate at Middle Tennessee State University.
He completed his B.A. and M.A. in English (short fiction creative writing)
at Texas A&M University, College Station, TX. His fields of study include
children’s literature and horror film adaptations, narratological studies in
television and film, applications of gender and queer theory in popular culture, and creative writing—poetry, short fiction, and screenplays.
Journal Essays: - Camping Out: Sexuality as Aesthetic Value in Tennessee Williams's And Tell Sad Stories of the Deaths of Queens… (2007)
- James Francis is a Ph.D. candidate at Middle Tennessee State University.
He completed his B.A. and M.A. in English (short fiction creative writing)
at Texas A&M University, College Station, TX. His fields of study include
children’s literature and horror film adaptations, narratological studies in
television and film, applications of gender and queer theory in popular culture, and creative writing—poetry, short fiction, and screenplays.
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Frontain, Raymond-Jean
- Professor of English
University of Central Arkansas
Raymond-Jean Frontain is professor of English and former director of the Humanities and World Cultures Institute at the University of Central Arkansas. He is completing a book manuscript tentatively titled "Something about Grace: The Theater of Terrence McNally."
Journal Essays: - Tennessee Williams and "the Arkansas Ozark Way" (2007)
- Professor of English
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Gindt, Dirk
- Postdoctoral Associate
Center for Fashion Studies at Stockholm University
Dirk Gindt holds a PhD in performance studies and has worked as an assistant professor at the Center for Fashion Studies at Stockholm University, where he, in autumn 2009, was awarded a two-year research position as a postdoctoral associate.
Journal Essays: - Torn between the “Swedish Sin” and “Homosexual Freemasonry”: Tennessee Williams, Sexual Morals, and the Closet in 1950s Sweden (2010)
- Postdoctoral Associate
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Goldthwaite, Charles A., Jr.
- Charles A. Goldthwaite Jr. received a Ph.D. in English from the University of Virginia in 2003. His essay on sampling techniques in the work of Mark Danielewski is included in the forthcoming We Could Be So Good Together: Rock and Roll and American Fiction (U of North Texas Press).
Journal Essays: - All Shook Up: Elvis, Bo, and the White Negro in Tennessee Williams's Orpheus Descending (2006)
- Charles A. Goldthwaite Jr. received a Ph.D. in English from the University of Virginia in 2003. His essay on sampling techniques in the work of Mark Danielewski is included in the forthcoming We Could Be So Good Together: Rock and Roll and American Fiction (U of North Texas Press).
- Grosch, Robert J.
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Hale, Allean
- Adjunct Professor of Theatre
University of Illinois-Urbana
Allean Hale, adjunct professor of theatre at the University of Illinois-Urbana, has published widely on Tennessee Williams and has edited several of Williams's plays for publication by New Directions. She has been a consultant on three film documentaries of Williams's life and was assistant to Lyle Leverich on the official biography, Tom, The Unknown Tennessee Williams.
Journal Essays: - What Was He Reading? (2006)
- Tennessee Williams's Three Plays for the Lyric Theatre (2005)
- Confronting the Late Plays of Tennessee Williams (2003)
- Tom Williams, Proletarian Playwright (1998)
- Conference Panels:
- The Early Plays of Tennessee Williams (2005)
- The Unpublished Tennessee Williams (2003)
- Looking at the Late Plays of Tennessee Williams (2002)
- Adjunct Professor of Theatre
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Hooper, Michael
- Head of English
Princess Helena College (England)
Michael Hooper is currently head of English at Princess Helena College in England. He is working on a Ph.D. dissertation (through the University of East Anglia) with the working title "Desire Not Protest: the Sexual Politics of Tennessee Williams," and he has recently edited the Methuen Student Edition of A Streetcar Named Desire.
Journal Essays: - Warring Desires: Sex, Marriage, and the Returning Soldier (2009)
- Head of English
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Hunter, Christina
- University of Southern Mississippi
Christina Hunter teaches English literature at the University of Southern Mississippi, where she is writing a dissertation on the apprentice plays of Tennessee Williams. She has presented papers at the Tennessee Williams Scholars' Conference and The Florida State University Film and Literature Conference.
Journal Essays: - A Tennessee Williams Bibliography, 1998-2001 (2001)
- University of Southern Mississippi
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Keith, Thomas
- Consulting Editor
New Directions Publishing
Thomas Keith currently edits the Tennessee Williams titles for New Directions Publishing as consulting editor. A Burns scholar, Keith has contributed articles to Studies in Scottish Literature, Robert Burns in America, The Burns Chronicle, Electric Scotland, The Drouth, and Fickle Man: Burns in the 21st Century.
Journal Essays: - Vieux Carré at the Pearl Theatre Company, New York City, May 12–June 14, 2009 (2010)
- Conference Panels:
- The Unpublished Tennessee Williams (2003)
- Looking at the Late Plays of Tennessee Williams (2002)
- Consulting Editor
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Kolin, Philip C.
- University Distinguished Professor
University of Southern Mississippi
Philip C. Kolin, University Distinguished Professor at the University of Southern Mississippi, has published 40 books and more than 200 articles. Among his books on Williams are: A Streetcar Named Desire (for the Cambridge performance series); the Tennessee Williams Encyclopedia (which has recently been translated into Japanese); and The Influence of Tennessee Williams: Essays on Fifteen American Playwrights.
Journal Essays: - An Interview with Douglas McKeown on the Production of Kirche, Kutchen, und Kinder, 1979 (2010)
- Picaro Tom Goes Catfishing: The Proleptic Importance of "Gift of an Apple" (2007)
- Tenn and the Banana Queen: The Correspondence of Tennessee Williams and Marion Black Vaccaro (2006)
- The Remarkable Rooming-House of Mme. Le Monde: Tennessee Williams's Little Shop of Comic Horrors (2001)
- Compañero Tenn: The Hispanic Presence in the Plays of Tennessee Williams (1999)
- "Isolated": Tennessee Williams's First Extant Published Short Story (1998)
- Conference Panels:
- Williams and the Grotesque (2006)
- The Early Plays of Tennessee Williams (2005)
- The Unpublished Tennessee Williams (2003)
- Looking at the Late Plays of Tennessee Williams (2002)
- Teaching Tennessee (2001)
- University Distinguished Professor
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Kontaxopoulos, Jean
- Jean Kontaxopoulos, literary essayist and lawyer (research scholar in international labor law at the University of Paris-Sorbonne) is also the General Secretary of the Comparative Literature Society (in Paris) and the author of articles on Jean Cocteau, Tennessee Williams, and others. He is currently preparing a book on the art cinema of Nico Papatakis.
Journal Essays: - Orpheus Introspecting: Tennessee Williams and Jean Cocteau (2001)
- Jean Kontaxopoulos, literary essayist and lawyer (research scholar in international labor law at the University of Paris-Sorbonne) is also the General Secretary of the Comparative Literature Society (in Paris) and the author of articles on Jean Cocteau, Tennessee Williams, and others. He is currently preparing a book on the art cinema of Nico Papatakis.
- Kramer, Richard E.
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Kullman, Colby
- Professor of English
University of Mississippi
Colby Kullman is Professor of English at the University of Mississippi, where he has twice been awarded Teacher of the Year. In addition to his authoring many articles on Williams and other modern dramatists, he has also served as editor-in-chief of the two-volume reference work Theatre Companies of the Contemporary American Playwrights and co-editor of Studies in American Drama: 1945-Present. - Conference Panels:
- Teaching Tennessee (2001)
- Professor of English
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Levin, Lindy
- Lindy Levin is a licensed family therapist living in Pacific Palisades, California. For two years she was an affiliated scholar at the University of Southern California and has taught developmental psychology at Mount St. Mary's College in Los Angeles. Currently she is a research scholar at the UCLA Center for the Study of Women.
Journal Essays: - Shadow Into Light: A Jungian Analysis of The Night of the Iguana (1999)
- Lindy Levin is a licensed family therapist living in Pacific Palisades, California. For two years she was an affiliated scholar at the University of Southern California and has taught developmental psychology at Mount St. Mary's College in Los Angeles. Currently she is a research scholar at the UCLA Center for the Study of Women.
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Martinson, Deborah
- Professor of English
Occidental College in Los Angeles
Deborah Martinson is a professor of English at Occidental College in Los Angeles and the author of Lillian Hellman: A Life with Foxes and Scoundrels (2005). Her previous book is entitled In the Presence of Audience: The Self in Diaries and Fiction. - Conference Panels:
- Williams and His Contemporaries: Lillian Hellman (2006)
- Professor of English
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Mitchell, Tom
- Head of the Theatre Department
University of Illinois
Tom Mitchell is head of the Theatre Department at the University of Illinois. A frequent panelist and guest director at the Tennessee Williams Scholars Conference, Mitchell has also directed several Williams plays at the University of Illinois.
Journal Essays: - Tennessee Williams and the Mummers of St. Louis: The Birth of a Playwright (2009)
- Head of the Theatre Department
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Moschovakis, Nick
- Independent Scholar
Nick Moschovakis is an independent scholar and co-editor (with David Roessel) of Williams's Collected Poems and Mister Paradise and Other Short Plays. He has written critical and review essays for previous issues of TWAR; otherwise, his teaching and his publications have centered on Shakespeare and Milton. He is writing a book on allusion in early modern English literature.
Journal Essays: - Recent Releases (2010)
- Tennessee Williams's American Blues: From the Early Manuscripts Through Menagerie (2005)
- Taking the Personal Politically: A Review of, and Response to, Michael Wilson's 8 By Tenn (Hartford Stage, 2003) (2003)
- Conference Panels:
- The Early Plays of Tennessee Williams (2005)
- The Unpublished Tennessee Williams (2003)
- Independent Scholar
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Murphy, Brenda
- Professor of English
University of Connecticut
Brenda Murphy is professor of English at the University of Connecticut. Among her books are: O'Neill: Long Day's Journey Into Night, Congressional Theatre: Dramatizing McCarthyism On Stage, Film and Television, Miller: Death of a Salesman, Tennessee Williams and Elia Kazan: A Collaboration in the Theater, American Realism and American Drama, 1880-1940 and, as editor, The Cambridge Companion to American Women Playwrights. Her most recent work on Tennessee Williams includes two forthcoming articles on his politics in the context of the Cold War. - Conference Panels:
- Looking at the Late Plays of Tennessee Williams (2002)
- Professor of English
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O'Connor, Jacky
- Professor of English
Boise State University
Jacky O'Connor is a professor of English at Boise State University. She has written Dramatizing Dementia: Madness in the Plays of Tennessee Williams, along with several articles on Williams and other modern authors.
Journal Essays: - Williams Through a "great window": A Theatre Review of Fugitive Kind (2003)
- "Living in this little hotel": Boarders on Borders in Tennessee Williams's Early Short Plays (2000)
- Conference Panels:
- Williams and the Grotesque (2006)
- Professor of English
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Paller, Michael
- Dramaturg and Director of Humanities
American Conservatory Theater (San Francisco)
Michael Paller is the dramaturg and director of humanities at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco. He is the author of Gentlemen Callers: Tennessee Williams, Homosexuality, and Mid-Twentieth Century Drama (Palgrave Macmillan). He has taught at Columbia University and the State University of New York at Purchase.
Journal Essays: - A Playwright with a Social Conscience (2009)
- The Couch and Tennessee (2000)
- Dramaturg and Director of Humanities
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Palmer, R. Barton
- Calhoun Lemon Professor of Literature
Clemson University
R. Barton Palmer is Calhoun Lemon Professor of Literature at Clemson University, where he also directs the Film and International Culture Ph.D. program. Author, editor, or general editor of more than thirty books, Palmer has recently completed, with co-author Robert Bray, Hollywood's Tennessee: The Williams Films (U Texas, 2008).
Journal Essays: - Baby Doll: The Success of Scandal (2001)
- Chance's Main Chance: Richard Brooks's Sweet Bird of Youth (2000)
- Elia Kazan and Richard Brooks Do Tennessee Williams: Melodramatizing Cat on a Hot Tin Roof on Stage and Screen (1999)
- Conference Panels:
- Williams and His Contemporaries: William Inge (2007)
- Williams and His Contemporaries: Lillian Hellman (2006)
- Calhoun Lemon Professor of Literature
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Parker, Brian
- Emeritus Professor of English
University of Toronto
Brian Parker is emeritus professor of English at the University of Toronto, where he has also served as director of graduate English studies, dean of arts, and vice provost of Trinity College. His wide ranging scholarship includes books and articles on Elizabethan drama and the works of Tennessee Williams.
Journal Essays: - Problems with Boss Finley (2007)
- Foreword to The Pretty Trap (2006)
- Elia Kazan and Sweet Bird of Youth (2005)
- Introduction to Il Cane Incantato della Divina Costiera (2003)
- The Rose Tattoo as Comedy of the Grotesque (2003)
- Introduction to a One-Act Version of The Night of the Iguana (2001)
- Bringing Back Big Daddy (2000)
- Multiple Endings for The Rose Tattoo (1951) (1999)
- Documentary Sources for Camino Real (1998)
- Conference Panels:
- Williams and the Grotesque (2006)
- The Early Plays of Tennessee Williams (2005)
- Emeritus Professor of English
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Peters, Brian M.
- Champlain College, St-Lambert
Brian M. Peters currently teaches English & American Literature at Champlain College, St-Lambert. He is working on a manuscript on the 1950s, in particular queer writers and American writers in France.
Journal Essays: - Queer Semiotics of Expression: Gothic Language and Homosexual Destruction in Tennessee Williams's "One Arm" and "Desire and the Black Masseur" (2006)
- Champlain College, St-Lambert
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Quinlan, Stefanie
- Stefanie Quinlan received her PhD in American literature from the University of Goettingen, Germany. She previously taught German at the University of Colorado at Boulder and currently teaches English in Frankfurt.
Journal Essays: - The Gnädiges Fräulein: Tennessee Williams’s Southernmost Belle (2010)
- Stefanie Quinlan received her PhD in American literature from the University of Goettingen, Germany. She previously taught German at the University of Colorado at Boulder and currently teaches English in Frankfurt.
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Radavich, David
- Professor of English
Eastern Illinois University
David Radavich, Professor of English at Eastern Illinois University, has published a wide range of poetry and drama. His current scholarly project, The Midwestern Ground of American Drama, includes a chapter on Tennessee Williams’s St. Louis plays.
Journal Essays: - The Midwestern Plays of Tennessee Williams (2006)
- Professor of English
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Saddik, Annette
- Professor of English
New York City College of Technology
Annette Saddik is Professor of English at New York City College of Technology. She is the author of The Politics of Reputation: The Critical Reception of Tennessee Williams' Later Plays, as well as numerous articles on Williams and other modern dramatists.
Journal Essays: - "Blueprints for the Reconstruction": Postmodern Possibility in Stairs to the Roof (2007)
- Conference Panels:
- Williams and His Contemporaries: William Inge (2007)
- Williams and the Grotesque (2006)
- Looking at the Late Plays of Tennessee Williams (2002)
- Professor of English
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Schiavi, Michael R.
- Assistant Professor of English
New York Institute of Technology, Manhattan Campus
Michael R. Schiavi is Assistant Professor of English and Coordinator of ESL at New York Institute of Technology, Manhattan Campus. His work is forthcoming in Cassell's Companion to Twentieth Century Theatre and in the anthology entitled A Doorway, A Dawn, a Dusk: Queer Lives in the Theatre (Wesleyan University Press).
Journal Essays: - Effeminacy in the Kingdom: Tennessee Williams and Stunted Spectatorship (1999)
- Assistant Professor of English
- Schlatter, James
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Shackelford, Dean
- Associate Professor of English and Director of Undergraduate Studies
Southeast Missouri State University
Dean Shackelford is Associate Professor of English and Director of Undergraduate Studies at Southeast Missouri State University. He is presently working on a book-length study of Williams, and he has also published on Flannery O'Connor, Jean Toomer, William Faulkner, and Harper Lee, among others, in such journals as Mississippi Quarterly, Southern Quarterly, and The Tennessee Williams Annual Review.
Journal Essays: - "The Ghost of a Man": The Quest for Self-Acceptance in Early Williams (2001)
- The Truth That Must Be Told: Gay Subjectivity, Homophobia, and Social History in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1998)
- Associate Professor of English and Director of Undergraduate Studies
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Single, Lori Leathers
- Lori Leathers Single is a doctoral student in English at Georgia State University. She has several publications and has won the Ray Browne award for her essay entitled "Reading Against the Grain: The Reception for Kenneth Branagh's Frankenstein."
Journal Essays: - Flying the Jolly Roger: Image of Escape and Selfhood in Tennessee Williams's The Glass Menagerie (1999)
- Lori Leathers Single is a doctoral student in English at Georgia State University. She has several publications and has won the Ray Browne award for her essay entitled "Reading Against the Grain: The Reception for Kenneth Branagh's Frankenstein."
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Tischler, Nancy M.
- Professor Emerita of English and Humanities
Pennsylvania State University
Nancy M. Tischler is professor emerita of English and Humanities at the Pennsylvania State University, where she taught for 33 years. A prolific author and invited lecturer, her other work on Williams includes The Selected Letters of Tennessee Williams, Volumes one and two, and The Student Companion to Tennessee Williams.
Journal Essays: - What Was He Reading? (2006)
- The Tennessee Williams Encyclopedia (2005)
- Tennessee Williams: Vagabond Poet (1998)
- Conference Panels:
- Williams and His Contemporaries: Lillian Hellman (2006)
- Professor Emerita of English and Humanities
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Voss, Ralph F.
- Professor of English
University of Alabama
Ralph F. Voss is Professor of English at the University of Alabama, where he teaches classes in Rhetoric, Composition, and American Literature. He is the author of A Life of William Inge (UP of Kansas, 1989) and editor of Magical Muse: Millennial Essays on Tennessee Williams (UP of Alabama, 2002). He has published articles about the friendship between Williams and Inge in the Tennessee Williams Literary Journal and American Drama. Voss is a member of the National Advisory Board for the annual William Inge Festival in the playwright’s hometown of Independence, Kansas.
Journal Essays: - An Alignment of Stars: Tennessee Williams, William Inge, and Margo Jones's "Theatre '47" (2007)
- Conference Panels:
- Williams and His Contemporaries: William Inge (2007)
- Professor of English